| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Aktörerna lämnar scenen när de har spelat ut sina roller. På teatern. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Alla politiska frågor, alla problem om vad som är rätt, är i grund och botten bara en fråga om eventuell makt. | August Bebel |
| Alla stora politiska åtgärder innebär att man säger rent ut som det är och börjar med det. All politisk småskurenhet innebär att man förtiger och fördöljer hur det ligger till. | Ferdinand Lassalle |
| Att vara en politiker är som att vara en fotbollstränare, du måste vara smart att fatta spelet, och dum nog att tycka det är viktigt. | Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916-) |
| Att vara engagerad i politik är som att vara fotbollstränare. Man måste vara klyftig nog att förstå spelet och dum nog att tro att det är viktigt. | Eugene McCarthy (1916-) |
| De som är för smarta att engagera sig i politik blir straffade genom att bli styrda av de som är dummare. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Den som lutar sig mot en enskild partner i politiken faller när denna partner börjar vackla. | François Mauriac (1885-1970) |
| Den öppna dörrens politik medför oundvikligen många objudna gäster. | Jean Monnet |
| Det fina med Centerpartiet är att dom inte menar detsamma om två år som dom menar nu. | Per-Kristian Foss (1950-) |
| Det finns ett nära andligt släktskap mellan politik och pajaseri. Representanter för båda brukar begå dumheter, visserligen med den lilla skillnaden att pajasens utan undantag är medvetna. | Markus M. Ronner |
| Det finns inget mindre realistiskt än den realpolitik som glömmer att den starkaste politiska faktorn i världen är människornas känslor. | Frode Jakobsen |
| Det finns två vägar till politisk framgång. Antingen anpassar man sig eller också ger man efter. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Det skulle innebära en genomgripande politisk reform om det sunda förnuftet kunde breda ut sig' lika snabbt som enfallden. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Det spelar ingen roll om en katt är svart eller vit, bara den fångar möss. | Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) |
| Det svåraste med ett politiskt ställningstagande är ju inte att inta de rätta, aktningsvärda ståndpunkterna - det kan vilken idiot som helst göra - utan att i tid inta de motbjudande men nödvändiga. | Per Olov Enquist (1934-) |
| Det verkar vara en allmän lag i politiken att ju fler gemensamma övertygelser och intressen man har, desto starkare kan det ömsesidiga hatet växa sig. | Arthur Koestler (1905-1938) |
| Det vi än så länge saknar i politiken är en hungerstrejk för makt. | Werner Finck (1902-) |
| Det är bättre att diskutera utan att finna en politisk lösning än att driva igenom en lösning utan att ha diskuterat. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Det är farligt när någon använder sin charm i politiken. Det hindrar de andra från att använda sitt förstånd. | Hermann Höcherl |
| Det är i politiken som i konsten: motsatsen till gott är inte ont utan välment. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| Det är inte lätt att sluta i politiken. Det är som att rida på en tiger man inte kan komma av. | Poul Hartling |
| Det är nödvändigt att hela tiden ändra sin uppfattning om verkligheten, eftersom verkligheten ständigt förändras. Alltså øman byter åsikt för att bevara en ståndpunkt. | Jan Myrdal (1927-) |
| En aktiv våldsam, dominerande, brutal ungdom - det är vad jag är ute efter. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| En viktig skillnad mellan schack och politik är att charm inte spelar någon roll i schack. | Mikal Rode |
| Ett felsteg i politiken beror i regel på att det ena benet inte vet vad det andra gör. | Maurice Faure |
| Ett folk som värderar sina privilegier högre än sina principer mister snart båda delarna. | Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Ett politiskt system som är vigt till undergång gör ofrånkomligen mycket som påskyndar undergången. | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Folk som behåller hemligheter de får sig anförtrodda är oanvändbara i politiken. | Roger Peyrefitte (1907-) |
| Folk som politiskt hoppar från isflak till isflak utan att ha en aning om den andra stranden imponerar inte längre på ungdomen. | Heinz Kühn |
| Framsteg i politiken är ofta bara den känsla man har i ett stillastående tåg när det bredvid är i gång. | George Brown |
| Förr i världen var det ett välutvecklat samvete som fick människor att gå in i politiken. I dag är det tvärtom. Nu får samvetet de engagerade att lämna politiken. | Carsten Jensen |
| Han vet ingenting, men tror att han vet allt - det pekar tydligt på en politisk karriär | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Hellre röd än död | Nordisk Ordtak |
| I andra, inte på långt när lika komplicerade hantverk går man i lära i tre fyra år, men nu för tiden tror många att de kan lära sig politik på fjorton dagar. | Per Hækkerup |
| I dag krävs samma teknik för att sälja tandkräm och politik. | Jens Thoft |
| I den praktiska politiken måste mycket göras med sammanbitna tänder i stället för med hjärtat. Man skulle kunna nämna andra kroppsdelar också. | Willy Brandt (1913-1992) |
| I en politisk kovändning kan det vara svårt att få valboskapen med. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| I kärlek och politik är man trogen när man inte kan vara något annat. | Gabriel Laub |
| I mitt land så hamnar vi i fängelse först och sedan blir vi president. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| I politik behöver man inte vara oskicklig därför att man inte har något begrepp om politik. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| I politik gäller det att stryka hunden medhårs så länge att munkorgen hinner bli färdig. | Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) |
| I politik måste man missförstå. Annars blir det ingen debatt. | Anonym riksdagsman |
| I politik är enfaldighet inget handikapp. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| I politiken dödar man med den hjärtliga omfamningens kvävningsmetod. | Poul Møller (1919-) |
| I politiken får sanningen anstå tills den passar in. | Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) |
| I politiken förblir ingenting hemligt utom det som sägs offentligt. | Dean Rusk (1909-1994) |
| I politiken förväxlas ofta tålamod med rådvillhet. | Roger Peyrefitte (1907-) |
| I politiken gäller det att inte ha för gott minne på vissa punkter. | A. F. Krieger |
| I politiken har man inga vänner, endast medsammansvurna. | Joseph Kane |
| I politiken kan allt utnyttjas. Det som inte kan brukas, kan missbrukas. | Helena Rubenstein (1870-1965) |
| I politiken kan man bli slagen knockout och ändå segra. | Edgar Faure |
| I politiken liksom på sjuklägret kastar sig människorna från den ena sidan till den andra för att ligga bättre. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| I politiken måste man höra det gräs gro som man själv har sått. | Robert Rocca |
| I politiken måste sanningen vänta tills någon har användning för den. | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| I politiken räknas inte avsikterna utan enbart resultaten. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| I politiken är det enfaldigt att profetera. Man får inget anseende om man har rätt och mycken skam om man tar fel. | Lord Vansittart |
| I politiken är det godas fiende inte det onda utan det välmenta. | Gunnar Thorlund Iepsen |
| I politiken är det ofta som i köket. När en rätt misslyckas kommer man sällan på något nytt recept. | Hugh Gaitskell |
| I politiken är det som när man bygger hus. De billigaste lösningarna är i längden de dyraste. | Michel Debré |
| I politiken är det som på konserter. Otränade öron tror att det är musik redan när orkestern stämmer instrumenten. | Amintore Fanfani (1908-) |
| I politiken är det viktigt att veta när det är dags att dra sig tillbaka. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| I politiken är ett gemensamt hat nästan alltid grundvalen för vänskap. | Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) |
| I storpolitiken är det i stort sett två faktorer som fäller avgörandet: självhävdelsebegäret och hämndlystnaden. | Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) |
| Ingen kan hetsa upp sig lika mycket som en lurad falskspelare. I politiken är det precis som i kortspel. | Amintore Fanfani (1908-) |
| Ingenting är så främmande för oss kristna som politiken | Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullian (160-220) |
| Inte heller i politiken fäster man något avseende vid om en tax kissar på ens klack. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Jag har alltid sagt att inom politiken kan inte dina fiender göra dig illa, men dina vänner kommer döda dig. | Ann Richards (1933-1933) |
| Jag tar avsked av politiken så fort jag blir så senil att jag berättar samma vits tre gånger på en bjudning utan att märka det. | Richard Stücklen |
| Karisma i politiken är som potens i sängen. Antingen har man den eller också har man den inte. Att lära sig den är under alla förhållanden omöjligt. | Burt Billings |
| Kännetecknet för en dålig regering är att den oupphörligen stiftar lagar för fler och fler bagateller. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Man behöver inte nödvändigtvis ta avsked av en politiskmotståndare med en spark när man kan göra det med en handtryckning. | Edgar Faure |
| Man ska inte bedöma en politisk rörelse efter dess mål utan enbart efter dess medel. | Werner Heisenberg |
| Man ska inte förakta politik, men man ska akta sig för politikerna | Dansk Ordtak |
| Man ska inte titta på när det lagas fisksoppa och politik. | Henri Tisot |
| Marxismen är oförenlig med nationalismen. Marxismen ersätter alla former av nationalism med en internationalism som smälter alla nationer samman i en större enhet. | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| Medveten minnesförlust är ett överlevnadsmedel i politiken. | Hans Maier |
| Men jag beslutade mig att bli politiker. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Min radikalisering är visst alldeles överdriven. | Kåre Isaachsen Willoch (1928-) |
| Många anser att politik är konsten att släcka eldar som de själva har anlagt. | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| Många har misslyckats i politiken bara för att de lade fram ett korrekt men impopulärt faktum vid fel tidpunkt. | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| Många politiker är som bebisar: De tror de kan få allt bara de skriker tillräckligt högt. | Nancy Astor (1879-1964) |
| Många som tror att de är hantverkare i storpolitiken är i själva verket endast verktyg. | Lord Salisbury |
| Människan är av naturen en socialpolitisk varelse | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Nålstick är ingen god politik. De sårar inte, de hetsar bara upp. | George F. Kennan |
| När det överallt i samhället krävs utbildning och frågas efter expertis är erotik och politik de två områden där man alltjämt hyser överdrivet förtroende för amatörer. | Palle Lauring (1909-) |
| När man vill ha något sagt i politiken vänder man sig till en man. Om man vill ha något gjort vänder man sig till en kvinna. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| När vattnet börjar koka är det dumt att stänga av värmen. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Om du inte tål spisvärmen så försvinn ur köket. | Harry S. Truman |
| Politik består inte sällan av att man komplicerar ett enkelt faktum så mycket att alla ropar efter en ny förenklare. | Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968) |
| Politik är att tjäna Gud på ett sådant sätt att man inte retar djävulen. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Politik är den ädla konsten att få röster från de fattiga och kampanj fonder från de rika genom att man lovar skydda den ena parten mot den andra. | Oscar Ameringer (1870-) |
| Politik är det möjligas konst men även det omöjligas vetenskap. | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| Politik är en intressekamp som har maskerat sig som en kapplöpning mellan principer. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Politik är en så allvarlig sak att man i fortsättningen inte kan överlåta den åt politikerna. | Jacques Esterel |
| Politik är en underavdelning av meteorologin -läran om hur vinden blåser. | Edouard Heriot |
| Politik är en vetenskap. Andens hallickar bringar den i vanrykte. | F. X. Neuwirth |
| Politik är ett arbete som kräver speciellt rena människor, därför att det är speciellt lätt att smutsa ned sig moraliskt. Det är så lätt att en mindre vaken ande över huvud taget inte behöver märka det. | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| Politik är ett svårt hantverk, och ingen som frivilligt har gett sig på det ska beklaga sig. | Gunter Grass (1927-) |
| Politik är historia i aktion. | Roger Butterfield |
| Politik är ingen exakt vetenskap som många professorer inbillar sig, utan en konst. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| Politik är ingen fotbollsmatch där spelarna kan bytas ut efter första halvlek. | Richard von Weizsäcker |
| Politik är inget kafferep med mjuka kakor. | Ritt Bjerregaard |
| Politik är inte bara det möjligas konst. Det måste också vara det omöjligas konst. | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| Politik är konsten att göra det nödvändiga möjligt. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Politik är konsten att skaffa pengar från de rika och röster från de fattiga under förevändning att man skyddar båda parter mot varandra. | Cedric Adams |
| Politik är konsten att umgås på ett högre plan. | Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) |
| Politik är krig utan blod, krig är politik med blod. | Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) |
| Politik är offentliga handlingar till ens privata fördel. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Politik är som schack. Det första draget avgör ofta det sista. | Amintore Fanfani (1908-) |
| Politik är strävan efter att göra sin egen fördel till allas intresse. | Rudolf Rolfs |
| Politik är umgänge med makten. | Karl Jaspers (1883-) |
| Politik: De munviga struntpratarnas paradis. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Politik: Kapplöpning mellan trojanska hästar. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Politiken sägs vara det näst äldsta yrket i världen. Jag har i alla fall lärt mig en sak, nämligen att den har mycket gemensamt med det äldsta. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Politiken är en scen där sufflörerna ofta talar högre än skådespelarna. | Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) |
| Politiken är full av överlevnadskonstnärer. Det finns nog så många som redan har brutit nacken flera gånger utan att därför vara politiskt döda. | Hershey Wallace |
| Politiken är konsten att hela tiden upptäcka nya anledningar till nya skatter. | Helmar Nahr |
| Politiken är konsten att leta efter problem, hitta dem överallt, ställa fel diagnos och använda fel botemedel. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Politisk teater: För var och en som uppträder på scenen finns tio sufflörer. | Wieslaw Brudzinski |
| Politiskt maktbegär är en psykisk defekt i linje med barnmisshandel och smak för gummiunderkläder . | Auberon Waugh |
| Praktisk politik är konsten att ignorera fakta. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| På politikens område har massorna en näsa som hundarna, som älskar enbart dålig lukt och väljer den minst goda med ofellbar instinkt. | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) |
| Rykte: Masshypnosvapen hittade i USA. | Loesje (1983-) |
| Rösta på den man som lovar minst. Han kommer att vara den som sviker minst. | Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) |
| Sanningen har sin givna plats även i politiken, men den får givetvis icke drivas så långt, att den motverkar våra mer övergripande syften. | Joel Eriksson, stadsråd i Grönköping |
| Sanningen är att politiken skapar egendomliga sängkamrater. | Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) |
| Sovjet-människan är ett kugghjul | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| Statsråd är de högst betalda lärlingar som finns. | Alberto Sordi (1920-) |
| Straffet för att låta bli att delta i det politiska livet, är att man blir regerad av människor underlägsna en själv. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Strutsen är det enda djur som har ett officiellt erkänt sinne för politik. | Pierre Daninos |
| Tala hellre över huvudet på folk än bakom deras rygg. | Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Tio personer som pratar för mer väsen än tiotusen som står tysta. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Varför går humoristerna inte in i politiken? Jo, därför att de bara uppskattar goda kvickheter. | Gabriel Laub |
| Vi Judar har ett hemligt vapen i vår kamp mot araberna - vi har ingenstans att ta vägen. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| Vilken tur för härskarna att människor inte tänker. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Vill du får nåt sagt, be en man. Vill du få nåt gjort, be en kvinna. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| Är politik något annat än konsten att ljuga vid rätt tidpunkt? | François de Voltaire |
| Ärlighet kommer man längst med i politiken - när man inte kan klara sig på annat sätt. | Frejlif Olsen |
| Även i politiken finns det situationer där man samtidigt har kikhosta och diarré. Följderna är av liknande slag. | Carlo Franchi |
| Det heter at vi får de politikere vi fortjener. Det må åpenbart være feil. Det kan da ikke være vår skyld! | Gudmund Hernes (1941-) |
| Jeg ser at president Clinton ikke er her i dag. Han er vel i en eller annen vitneboks. | Don Imus |
| Nationalt selvmord er ikke nogen international forpligtelse. | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow. | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog. | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. | Al Capone (1899-1947) |
| The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. | Alexander Solsjenitsin |
| Under every stone lurks a politician | Aristophanes |
| A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. | Aristotle |
| Man is by nature a political animal. | Aristotle |
| Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television? | Art Buchwald (1925-) |
| I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team. | Art Buchwald (1925-) |
| If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock | Arthur J. Goldberg (1908-1990) |
| Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. | Auberon Waugh |
| Practically no Briton is interested in politics apart from a handful of bores and these wishing to become politicians and exert power themselves. | Auberon Waugh |
| An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them | Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) |
| The first mistake in public business is the going into it. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| When I came into power, I found that the party managers had taken it all to themselves. I could not name my own cabinet. They sold out every place to pay the election expenses. | Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) |
| It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. | Bernadette Devlin (1947-) |
| What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. | Bob Wells (1966-) |
| Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. | Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993) |
| Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese? | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| The art of statemanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks | Doug Larson |
| I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it | Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership. | Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids. | Elisabeth Taylor |
| The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. | Fidel Castro (1927-) |
| A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| They [who] seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The politician who once had to learn to flatter kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. | George Burns (1896-1996) |
| All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Liberal: a power worshipper without power | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| I hope one day I can clone another Dick Cheney. Then I won't have to do anything. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. | Georges Pompidou (1911-1974) |
| Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from every doing so. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| If you can't convince them, confuse them | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Anarchy is the law of nature, Order is the dream of man | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Ninty percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| If I didn't kick Bill Clinton's ass every day, he wouldn't be worth anything. | Hilary Clinton |
| I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. | Hilary Clinton |
| The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. | Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) |
| Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even. | James Carville (1944-) |
| Kerry's said all these foreign leaders said they want him to win, but Kerry hasn't even been out of the country in a year and a half, which means the only possible foreign leader he could have met with is Arnold Schwarzenegger. | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead. | Jesse Jackson (1941-) |
| Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. | John Buchan (1875-1940) |
| A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. | John C. Calhoun |
| And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. | John Quinton |
| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. | Johnny Carson (1925-2005) |
| Those who cast the votes decide nothing.those who count the votes decide everything. | Josef Stalin (1880-1953) |
| Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. | Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) |
| My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. | Larry Hagman (1931-) |
| Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then- we elected them. | Lily Tomlin (1939-) |
| There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination | Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) |
| This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper. | Lord Evershed |
| The king reigns but does not govern. | Louis Adolphe Thiers |
| To a man with an empty stomach food is God. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship? | Marcel Achard (1899-1974) |
| A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| In politics, as in high finance, duplicity is regarded as a virtue. | Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) |
| Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. | Milton Friedman (1912-) |
| America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| The heart of a statesman must be in his head. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Politics have no relation to morals | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. | Pat Paulsen (1927-1997) |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them | Chinese Proverbs |
| You can lead a man to politics, but you can't make him think | Chinese Proverbs |
| Three humble shoemakers brainstorming will make a great statesman. | Proverbs, China |
| I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| I would have made a good Pope. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Nixon (looking at a picture of John F. Kennedy): When people look at you they see what they want to be; when they look at me they see what they are. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. | Robert M. Pirsig |
| We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities. | Robin Williams (1952-) |
| Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. | Shirley MacLaine (1934-) |
| I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat | Unknown |
| A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal | Unknown |
| All extremists should be taken out and shot | Unknown |
| If pro is the opposite of con, what's the opposite of progress? | Unknown |
| Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. | Unknown |
| When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation | Vanya Cohen |
| A fool and his money are soon elected. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Even Napoleon had his Watergate. | Yogi Berra (1925-) |
| He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match | Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) |
| In politics, guts is all. | Barbara Castle |
| She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply | Bella Abzug (1920-1998) |
| It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people. | Sir Bob Geldof (1954-) |
| Politics makes strange bedfellows | Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) |
| Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. | Charles Frankel |
| We elect Democrats to the Congress to give us stuff and we elect Republicans to the White House so we don't have to pay for it | Charlie McDowell |
| In politics, you must let the other person have your way | Claiborne Pell (1918-) |
| A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. | David Lloyd George (1863-1945) |
| The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. | Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) |
| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| Politics is applied biology | Ernst Haeckel |
| Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. | Eugene McCarthy (1916-) |
| Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him | Fiorello La Guardia (1882-) |
| A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. | Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) |
| She is said to be inclined to cough noisily when he goes on too long at the rostrum; but this is a traditional prerogative of the political wife, and rather more necessary in this instance than in most. | George Hill |
| Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. | George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) |
| The two pillars of 'political correctness' are: | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| The only thing we learn from a new election is we learned nothing from the old | Gerald Barzan |
| Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one | Grace McGarvie |
| A week is a long time in politics. | Sir Harold Wilson (1916-1995) |
| Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. | Henri Queuille |
| No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. | Henry Fountain Ashurst |
| The best politics is no politics. | Henry M. Jackson |
| In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace | Henry Thomas Buckle |
| An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. | Henry Wotton, Sr. (1568-1639) |
| The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. | Hillary Clinton (1947-2001) |
| To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime | Howard Crosby |
| Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. | James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936) |
| The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger. Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics. | Jean Hollands |
| Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. | Jim Hightower (1926-) |
| I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
| Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game. | Joe McGinniss (1942-) |
| In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context. | John N. Mitchell |
| Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. | John O'Toole |
| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." | Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) |
| The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe | Judith S. Marin |
| Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms. | Julian Critchley (1930-) |
| Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. | Larry Flynt (1942-) |
| Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" | Larry Hardiman |
| In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. | Larry Summers |
| The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them | Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) |
| Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties. | Levi Eshkol (1895-) |
| Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation. | Lord Caradon |
| The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray. | Lord Thorneycroft |
| In the heat of a political lifetime, Ronald Reagan innocently squirrels away tidbits of misinformation and then, sometimes years later, casually drops them into his public discourse, like gum balls in a quiche. | Lucy Howard |
| The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. | Marcel Achard (1899-1974) |
| Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable. | Marilyn Moats Kennedy |
| In political activity men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting point nor appointed destination. | Michael Oakeshott |
| Good politics are often inextricably intertwined | Morris K. Udall (1922-1998) |
| To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense | Morton Blackwell |
| The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not | Neal Boortz (1945-) |
| Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other | Oscar Ameringer (1870-) |
| Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives | Paul Wellstone (1944-) |
| Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you | Pericles |
| Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. | Philip Andrew Adams |
| The essential ingredient of politics is timing. | Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) |
| Politics is largely a matter of heart. | R. A. Butler (1902-1982) |
| The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people. | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them | Robin Morgan (1942-) |
| Depression is the inability to construct a future | Rollo May (1909-1994) |
| Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle. | Ronald Steel |
| Politics: the art of keeping as many balls as possible up in the air at one time - while protecting your own. | Sam Attlesey |
| Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice". | Sharan Burrow |
| Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. | Ted Koppel (1940-) |
| A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything | Thomas Nixon Carver |
| Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low | Wallace Sayre |
| Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. | Walter F. Mondale (1928-) |
| Politics makes me sick. | William Howard Taft (1857-1930) |
| Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. | William Hurrell Mallock |
| We cannot encourage a process that has a political saliva test administered by candidates. | William Kovach |
| [It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre in this political jungle of ours. | Wole Soyinka (1934-) |
| I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it | Allan Bloom |
| Politics is a blood sport. | Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) |
| I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration. | Conan O'Brien |
| I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen. | Corazon Aquino (1933-) |
| If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Politics are not the task of a Christian. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) |
| In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. | Doug Larson |
| There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. | Elie Wiesel (1928-) |
| It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. | Eugene McCarthy (1916-) |
| During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected | Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) |
| In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. | Frank Moore Colby (1865-1926) |
| If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. | George F. Will (1941-) |
| Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men | George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) |
| Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. | George McGovern (1922-) |
| In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. | James Thurber (1894-1961) |
| I suspect that there is no other single profession that does more to contribute to our annoying linguistic convolutions than advertising, unless it's politics. | Jef I. Richards |
| The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. | Jimmy Breslin (1929-) |
| The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. | John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) |
| Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. | Lily Tomlin (1939-) |
| I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. | Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) |
| I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. | Mario Cuomo (1932-) |
| Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. | Molly Ivins (1944-) |
| What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. | Newt Gingrich (1943-) |
| Politics ruins the character. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. | Richard Armour (1906-1989) |
| Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door. | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party. | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. | Sir Kingsley Amis |
| You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. | Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) |
| It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy | Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) |
| With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. | Theodore H. White (1915-1986) |
| Politics is the science of urgencies. | Theodore Parker |
| Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. | Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) |
| The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed | William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) |
| I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me. | William Howard Taft (1857-1930) |
| I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. | Will Smith (1968-) |
| A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. | Earnest Benn |
| Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. | Henri Queuille |
| Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" | Larry Hardiman |
| President means chief servant | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The two pillars of 'political correctness' are: | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| In politics stupidity is not a handicap. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| We've had September 11th, the Gore-Bush recount, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina. How can you not care about who's laying the country out for you? This is the time of life you get to question things. You should always think for yourself and speak out. | Adam Morrison |
| What can be said, should never be written | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| …a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. | Alice Cooper (1948-) |
| Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| Surrender is rarely good strategy. | Ben Manski |
| Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims. | Ben Manski |
| Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed. | Ben Manski |
| Foreign rightwing fundamentalists attacked the United States. Domestic rightwing fundamentalists took the spotlight. And everywhere, progressives, liberals, and moderates either fell in behind them, or retreated into the shadows . . . We have seen the consequences. | Ben Manski |
| Retreat usually leads to defeat. | Ben Manski |
| Democracy demands an opposition party. | Ben Manski |
| In politics nothing is contemptible. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| There is no gambling like politics. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?' | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why. | Casey Stengel (1891-1975) |
| Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do. | Cedric Maxwell (1955-) |
| I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| killing a bad monarch is not to be considered murder but justice | Chinese Proverbs |
| In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| And as Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we truly believe that ALL red-state residents are ignorant racist fascist knuckle-dragging NASCAR-obsessed cousin-marrying road-kill-eating tobacco-juice-dribbling gun-fondling religious fanatic rednecks; or that ALL blue-state residents are godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving left-wing Communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts? | Dave Berry (1941-) |
| The real crime is the corporate hijacking of our democracy. | David Cobb |
| Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| Citizens want not just input but influence. | Deborah Reyher |
| I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal? | Denis Leary (1957-) |
| And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee. | Dennis Miller (1953-) |
| When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. | Don Delillo (1936-) |
| Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems. | Don Rittner |
| I've been told by certain politicians that I'm a loose cannon. I'm not! I aim very carefully. | Don Rittner |
| Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything | Edmond and Jules De Goncourt |
| It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. | Emma Goldman (1869-1940) |
| The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something, | Eric Sevareid (1912-1992) |
| All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them. | Fidel Castro (1927-) |
| Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle. | George F. Will (1941-) |
| In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. | George F. Will (1941-) |
| The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| The silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody. | Gerhard Kocher |
| Politics: The highest calling to the lowest falling | Gregory Nunn |
| Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids. | Hal Sparks (1969-) |
| If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians. | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan I know he's going to vote against me | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The best politics is no politics. | Henry M. Jackson |
| Impeachment did not have to be for criminal offenses - but only for a course of conduct' that suggested an abuse of power or a disregard for the office of the President of the United States...that a person's 'course of conduct' while not particularly criminal could be of such a nature that it destroys trust, discourages allegiance, and demands action by the Congress...the office of the President is such that it calls for a higher level of conduct than the average citizen in the United States. | Hillary Clinton (1947-2001) |
| I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. | Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) |
| Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia. | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
| Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. | Jimmy Breslin (1929-) |
| The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. | Jimmy Breslin (1929-) |
| Politics are the divine science, after all | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she's at a decided experience disadvantage. | John Hancock (consultant) |
| Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics | John Wilkes (1725-1797) |
| Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and the reason that maybe they keep him only in loyalty oath audiences, is if he becomes angry, I do believe he turns into the Hulk. And so, they try and keep people from questioning him, because he'll just -- the shirt rips, and suddenly he has hair. So he's been my favorite, because he just goes out there to a room full of supporters and says, 'You know we're all going to die, right?' You're going to die unless I'm in charge.' | Jon Stewart (1962-) |
| Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe | Judith S. Marin |
| When the US sneezes, Canada says, “gesundheit.” | Jules Carlysle (1970-) |
| We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and left, that the truth has become hopelessly lost in semantics. | Jules Carlysle (1970-) |
| Bush has cruised through life fueled by booze, drugs and bravado. He’s proud to be an underachiever and he rests comfortably on the laurels of his father. He’s failed at every venture he’s ever undertaken. And every mess he’s created has been cleaned up for him…arrests for drunk driving, cocaine, AWOL from the National Guard and numerous bad business deals. He is a self-made disaster. Yet, he was handed the keys to the kingdom…TWICE!Fool me once, shame on you….Fool me twice…….God help us all. | Jules Carlysle (1970-) |
| I don’t doubt that Bush probably believes most of his own rhetoric (even he couldn’t possibly believe it all) and somewhere in the dark recesses of the vacant space left behind after he sold his soul to the devil…he probably believes that ultimately, his intentions are good. He’d be wrong of course…but, he must be used to that by now . | Jules Carlysle (1970-) |
| George Bush doesn't care about black people. | Kanye West (1977-) |
| The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right. | Kevin Zeese |
| We'd all like t'vote for th' best man, but he's never a candidate | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his speeches garbled | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them--dis | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!' | Lewis Black (1948-) |
| If you listen to the politicians, you might think we are all terrorists | Loesje (1983-) |
| How many disasters do we need to unite humanity | Loesje (1983-) |
| If democracy is based on the people why force it [on Iraq] | Loesje (1983-) |
| When you perserve progressive thoughts they might become conservative | Loesje (1983-) |
| If the climate changes on global level, why can't people? | Loesje (1983-) |
| I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray. | Lord Thorneycroft |
| Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of inclement weather. | Marion Berry |
| In the meantime, we should demand that no B.C. elections take place for the Senate until we are properly recognized as a full-fledged region of this country. | Mark Marissen |
| Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Politics have no relation to morals. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| Politics is the art of the next best. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| Politics is not an exact science. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. | Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) |
| I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart. | Princess Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) |
| Politics is largely a matter of heart. | R. A. Butler (1902-1982) |
| By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate... | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order. | Richard Weaver |
| It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
| Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures”. | Robin Williams (1952-) |
| Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. | Saddam Hussein (1937-) |
| Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Politics is about people, not politicians. | Scott Simms |
| I remember when you couldn’t even mention environmental issues without a snicker. But then in the 70’s people got tired of seeing the Cuyahoga River catch on fire from all the chemicals. So one day millions of Americans marched. Politicians had no choice but to take notice. Twelve Congressmen were dubbed the Dirty Dozen, and soon after seven were kicked out of office. The floodgates were opened. We got the Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water. We created the EPA. The quality of life improved because concerned citizens made their issues matter in elections. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts? | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| As a rule of thumb, Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?" | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. | Tony Snow |
| Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Politics is applesauce. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Å eliminere ytterpartiene er like umulig som å lage en pølse uten ender. | Ruben |
| All historie er tilbakeskuende politikk. | Josef Joffe |
| Alle leger og politikere har sin yndlingsdiagnose. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Alle politikere bør være takknemlige for at de blir feilsitert. Ellers ville som regel deres uttalelser ha vært for lite originale. | Gudmund Hernes (1941-) |
| Alle vil styre i godt vær. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Da jeg var liten ble det sagt at alle kunne bli president. Nå begynner det å gå opp for meg at det er sant. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| De beste hodene er ikke i statsadministrasjonen. Hvis de var det, ville noen i næringslivet ansette dem. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Demokrati - det er enighet uten drap. | H. Tingsten |
| Den vendbare kappe er et uoppslitelig innslag i årets mote. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Der de store spørsmålene slutter, begynner de små partiene. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Det å finne på lure avgifter som folk ikke vet at de betaler, det er en fin del av politikerlivet. Avgift er noe av det fineste i et demokrati. Avgift er sivilisasjon. | Einar Førde |
| Det er en gammel sannhet at man i politikken ofte må lære av fienden. | Vladimir Iljitsj Lenin (1870-1924) |
| Det er menneskelig å feile, å skylde på andre er politikk. | Svensk Ordtak |
| Det er utrolig hva folk kan betale i skatt, bare de blir vant til det. | Erik Brofoss |
| Det er vanskelig å heve levestandarden med de beste lover, men det er lett å senke den ved dårlig lovgivning. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Det er vanskelig å løfte stolen som man selv sitter på. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Det første jeg måtte lære da jeg ble diplomat, var å holde munn på mange språk. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| Det har jo gått så langt at du kan risikere å få en kjæreste som stemmer på Carl I. Hagen. | Ingvar Ambjørnsen |
| Det som stormaktene kaller avspenning, er likefram den tid en stormakt trenger til å fordøye en liten stat som den har slukt. | Carl Joachim Hambro (1885-1964) |
| Diplomati er å gjøre og si de mest ubehagelige tingene på den peneste måten. | Isaac Goldberg |
| Diplomati er kunsten å kunne uttale seg om både det ene og det andre når man mener noe tredje. | Otto Ludwig (1813-1865) |
| Ekte diplomati er evnen til å si nei på en så taktfull måte at hele verden tror at man har sagt ja. | Anthony Eden (1897-1977) |
| En diplomat er en mann som alltid husker en kvinnes fødselsdag og glemmer hennes alder. | Robert Lee Frost |
| En diplomat vet hva han snakker om - men han snakker aldri om det han vet. | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| En god diplomat må kunne se med ørene og tie med øynene. | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| En internasjonal politisk allianse er en forening mellom to tyver som har hendene så dypt nede i hverandres lommer at de ikke hver for seg kan plyndre en tredjepart. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| En koalisjon er et fornuftsekteskap med kalkulert risiko. | Amintore Fanfani (1908-) |
| En liberaler er en som vil ha forandringer som ikke berører ham selv. | Stokeley Carmichael |
| En politiker er en person med så tykk hud at han kan holde seg oppreist selv om han mangler ryggrad. | Finn Gustavsen (1926-) |
| En politiker er en person som er så tykkhudet at vedkommende kan holde seg oppreist selv om han mangler ryggrad. | Finn Gustavsen (1926-) |
| En politiker tenker på neste valg, en statsmann på neste generasjon. | Svensk Ordtak |
| En politisk leder må hele tiden se seg tilbake for å se om folk fremdeles er der. Hvis de ikke er der, er han ikke lenger politisk leder. | Bernard Baruch |
| En sann diplomat er en mann som tenker seg om to ganger før han ikke sier noen ting. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| En virkelig elsker av rettferdigheten må, hvis han vil overleve, holde seg utenfor politikk. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Er politikk noe annet enn kunsten å lyve i rett tid? | François de Voltaire |
| For å bli diplomat må man kunne snakke flere språk, inklusive det tvetydige. | Carey McWilliams |
| Fordelen med et partiprogram er at man slipper å tenke. | Svensk Ordtak |
| Grunnen til at man har diplomatiske forbindelser, er ikke for å gi komplimenter, men for å ha det behagelig. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Hvis de største var best, så var de lette å velge. | Dansk Ordtak |
| I politikk er 2 + 2 ofte 3, undertiden 5, men aldri 4. | Aristide Briand (1862-) |
| I politikken kaster menneskene seg, som på sykeleiet, fra den ene siden til den andre, for å ligge bedre. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Jeg stirret inn i Dan Quayles blå øyne, og kunne like gjerne ha stirret ut av vinduet. | William Cnaugh |
| Krig er ikke annet enn fortsettelsen av politikken med andre midler. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| Målet helliger middelet | Machiavelli |
| Man kan alltid kjenne en stat på hvilke folk som sitter i fengsel. | Ilona Bodden |
| Man kan ikke klippe av håret på en som er skallet. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Mange politikere forveksler tospråklighet med tvetydighet. | Wolfgang Eschker |
| Marxismen er uforenelig med nasjonalisme. Marxismen erstatter alle former for nasjonalisme med en internasjonalisme som smelter alle nasjoner sammen i en større enhet. | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| Mennesket lever ikke av brød alene, men først og fremst av slagord. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Nå vil jeg bruke Jagland-metoden med å være bevisst uklar. | Jan Petersen (1946-) |
| Noen skifter parti for sine prinsippers skyld. Andre skifter prinsipper for sitt partis skyld. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Noen skifter parti på grunn av sin overbevisning, andre skifter overbevisning på grunn av sitt parti. | Svensk Ordtak |
| Også for regjeringer gjelder prinsippet: tillit er vanskelig å oppnå, men lett å ødelegge. | Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) |
| På alle områder hvor folk kan klare seg selv, burde myndighetene unnlate å gripe inn. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Politikere er de eneste mennesker som kan stå oppreist uten ryggrad. | Frank Elguren |
| Politikere er mennesker som, når de ser lys i enden av tunnelen, beordrer mer tunnel. | John Quinton |
| Politikere er mennesker som, når de ser lyset i enden av tunnelen, vedtar å bygge en lengre tunnel. | John Quinton |
| Politikere er to hakk under barnemishandlere på den sosiale rangstigen. | John Brown |
| Politikere lyver aldri, unntatt når de må åpne munnen. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Politikere snubler i dagens problemer og gårsdagens sitater. | Carlo Franchi |
| Politikere snubler i sine problemer av i dag og i sine stiater fra i går. | Carlo Franchi |
| Politikere som taper et valg bør henrettes. På den måten vil folk tenke seg om to ganger før de stiller. | Mike Royko (1932-1997) |
| Politikk er å ville, men ikke kunne. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Politikk er det muliges kunst. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| Politikk er showbusiness for stygge. | Paul Begala (1961-) |
| Politikk hevdes å være verdens nest elste yrke. Jeg er etter hvert blitt klar over at det ligner svært mye på det eldste. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Politikken avhenger av statsmennene omtrent som været avhenger av meteorologene. | Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) |
| Politikken er ingen vitenskap, men en kunst. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| Som politikken, så landet. | Svensk Ordtak |
| Stem aldri på den beste kandidaten - stem på den som gjør minst skade. | Frank Dane |
| Svaret er kanskje, sa politikeren - og beslutningen endelig. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Tapt terreng kan man alltid vinne tilbake, men aldri tapt tid. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Torbjørn Jagland har ikke galt image. Han har ikke noe image i det hele tatt. | Kjetil Wiedswang |
| Valg blir vunnet mer fordi noen stemmer mot noe enn fordi noen stemmer for noe. | Franklin Pierce Adams (1881-1960) |
| Vi er alle sosialdemokratar. | Einar Førde |
| Vi er visst i ferd med å venne oss til at valgløfter ikke er til for å holdes. | Inge Lønning |
| Virkeligheten er alltid mer konservativ enn ideologiene. | Raymond Aron (1905-) |